Malware uses Hotmail and Gmail as spam hosts
A joint effort between the BitDefender and Yahoo security teams appears to have stymied the criminals behind Trojan.Spammer.HotLan to generate and use Yahoo accounts to send …
Financial services institutions battle with data loss
New research from TowerGroup finds that businesses are not doing nearly enough to prevent the loss or theft of customers’ personal information. The pace of data loss is …
Practical tips for information protection
The new school year means new friends, new classes, and often a new computer to help get schoolwork done. Mobile computers in particular can also contribute to problems …
Security is broken: the past, present and future
Our computer security model is broken. Worse yet, it never really has worked at all well, and is even less suitable for today’s uses. This talk explores the history …
The insecurity of Widgets
Iftach Ian Amit from Finjan explains why widgets and gadgets on various websites and platforms are inherently insecure, despite the fact that standards exist to create secure …
Bumping the Medeco Lock at DEFCON 2007
Lock bumping became big news at last year’s Defcon when 11-year-old Jennalynn showed an exceptional talent for being able to bump almost any lock set in front of her. …
What every engineer needs to know about security
This talk discusses recent trends in security, and what every engineer needs to know to prevent the most significant emerging threats such as cross-site scripting and SQL …
Noteworthy presentations at HITBSecConf2007
HITBSecConf2007 is taking place between September 3rd and 6th 2007 in Kuala Lumpur. Here’s a list of interesting presentations: Injecting RDS-TMC Traffic Information …
Automated bot attacks increase dramatically totaling 1.7 Million in June/July
SecureWorks announced today that it has seen an onslaught of Storm Worm attacks in the last two months. “From the first of January to the end of May, we only saw 71,342 …
Number of cyber attacks on banks up 81% since last year
SecureWorks reserach shows that the number of hackers attempting to attack its banking clients is up 81% since last year and hackers attempting to attack its credit union …
Two-thirds of all email blocked based on sender reputation
St. Bernard Software’s LivePrism filtering solution blocked two-thirds of its customers’ incoming email in July based solely on sender reputation without having to …
Spammed out “shocking photos” emails contain malicious payload
Sophos is urging computer users to think before opening unsolicited email attachments following the discovery of a widespread malicious spam campaign that claims to contain …
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